Are You Our Hope Or Despair?

Chapter 3: Horrifying Reveals

Kaneki's POV...

As I showed the boy my eyes, his expression drasticly change. His eyes were wide with terror, dead shock at my kakugan eye while his strong grip on my shoulders soon soften and started to shake in fear. But, from all his visible features, I can see a little hint of hesitation in them. Almost like his not believing on what he is seeing.

With my unemotionable gaze at the boy's pale face, I sighed quietly under my breath and slowly rolled my eyes away from his frozen stare. I hate to break it to him, but they are real. This eye will always remind me of what I am in addition to my sufferings I've been through. Even so, I was able to keep my composure intact. My sanity I mean...

"Y-You..." I was brought back to reality by the boy's stuttered words. "Wha..what are you..?" he frightenly demanded, slowly stood up and quietly step a few blocks away from me but stayed a few radius. I seriously feel like a monster in this. This is just so uncomfortable to bear.

His asking what am I?
I am...a ghoul
A flesh eater
A monster
A experiment
A wretched existance
An utter tragedy..

But in between of my thoughts, somewhere deep inside my heart and soul is crying 'Im human..' I closed my eyes and was thinking for a while on how to respond from this mess.

After a short yet complicated thought, I finally succeded my attempts to slightly sit on the tiled floors. I opened my eyes and stared intently at him, trying to observe on what are his intentions be. Once I did, I saw him flinch. I motionly force my head downwards, as some of my white hair shifted the same, covering the parts of my face. Also, allowing me to cover my kakugan eye.

"I..I am..a Ghoul" I hesitantly replied and finally had the courage to face him. I knew from the start that this was a bad idea to talk about myself, but, for some reason, just a feeling, I felt like I can trust him about this. Hopefully it would do any good.

Makoto's POV...

"-I am a Ghoul" he said while in between giving me a stare, along with that horrifying eye he bared. I looked at him in horror, Im seriously not dreaming about this nor hallucinating things, its real. Pitch black, surrounding the middle of a bloody red pupil, while markings of his veins, pops up around his eye.

Whats going on here? Is this the reason why were not allowed to go outside our rooms when its night time? If we did, this person
will kill us..?- no wait...think carefully about this, if that was the reason then he would have killed me that time. But, in the opposite, he told me to leave him be and ran. And even the time I chase him and after capturing him, he didnt even bother to flee but stayed quiet and ended up saying what he is when I ask..what are his reasons? Why is he out here? Why is he revealing things to me..and..and what is a Ghoul??

Pondering and also trying to find thoughts in this situation Im in, I stood there on guard and while thinking. Then, after a few seconds, a single possibility shocked me.

No doubt about it..if this is the right thought, then I might just be able to survive from this. I know that this is just a possibility but I cant miss that chance...

From this, I slowly walked towards him, to which he looked at me without a single emotion passing through his features. Seeing this, I took a deep breath and stretched my arm at him. With this, his looks soon gaze at me in confussion. Wondering what I am up to.

To be honest, Im not planning on anything at all. This is my honest actions.
"What do you want now-" but I stopped his words with my response.

"I..I know that you don't want me to come near you and wanted to be alone or something but.." I finally gained my expression with a determined look. "Can..can we join forces?" I don't know what I just ended up saying but all I got was a puzzled stare.